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This page covers how Advantage delivers business continuity and disaster recovery as a managed service. If you want to understand the business case and what recovery looks like in practice, visit our outcomes page: Stay Secure. Stay Resilient. Never Lose a Day's Work.
We design, implement and manage end-to-end business continuity and disaster recovery solutions built on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. Our approach covers your infrastructure, your cloud services and — critically — your Microsoft 365 data, which is not protected by default.
Every engagement starts with understanding your actual recovery requirements: what systems must come back first, how quickly you need them back and what data loss is acceptable. We then build a solution to meet those requirements — and test it to make sure it does.
The Service in Detail
1. Business Continuity Assessment
Before we recommend anything, we map your current estate and identify the gaps between where you are and where you need to be.
2. Microsoft 365 Backup — Advantage CloudVault365™
Microsoft's shared responsibility model means your Microsoft 365 data — emails, Teams conversations, SharePoint files, OneDrive — is not protected against accidental deletion, ransomware encryption or malicious insiders. We fix that.
3. Azure Infrastructure Backup & Site Recovery
For businesses running workloads on Azure or with on-premises infrastructure, we design and manage multi-layered protection across your full environment.
4. Disaster Recovery Plan Design & Documentation
A backup system without a tested recovery plan is false confidence. We produce board-ready documentation your team can actually follow under pressure.
5. DR Testing & Validation
The most dangerous words in disaster recovery are 'we assume it works'. We run scheduled, documented recovery tests and give you evidence.
Business continuity is not a one-off project. We operate as your ongoing BC/DR partner — designing the initial solution, managing it continuously and improving it as your business and threat landscape evolve.
No. Microsoft's shared responsibility model means your Microsoft 365 data — emails, Teams conversations, SharePoint files and OneDrive — is not protected against accidental deletion, ransomware encryption or malicious insiders by default.
Advantage CloudVault365™ provides daily automated backup of all Microsoft 365 workloads with immutable, ransomware-resilient storage and granular restore — down to individual emails, files or full mailboxes.
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum time your business can tolerate being without a system or service after an incident. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum amount of data loss that is acceptable, measured in time — for example, losing up to four hours of data.
Advantage defines both during the initial business continuity assessment and designs your recovery solution to meet them.
Our assessment covers:
AI-assisted estate scanning is also used to identify unprotected systems, shadow IT and legacy data stores that manual audits typically miss.
Advantage runs quarterly failover tests across all protected systems as part of the ongoing managed service. Each test cycle produces documented outcomes, RTO and RPO validation reports, and gap identification with remediation recommendations.
Board and audit-ready evidence packs are provided after every test — so you always have proof your recovery capability works.
The typical timeline is:
After implementation, Advantage operates as your ongoing BC/DR partner — not a one-off project team.
Yes. Our disaster recovery plan design explicitly includes alignment with cyber insurance requirements. Documented DR runbooks, tested recovery evidence and board-ready validation reports are all deliverables that insurers typically require as part of policy compliance and renewal.
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